Recent Events

A Twenty-first-century case for ‘Early Turner’ – Lecture by Professor Leo Costello. While great attention has been paid to Turner’s later career, much less has been given to his early work. This lecture will consider both definitions of and stakes in the concept of ‘Early Turner’.

A visit to ‘JMW Turner and Changing Visions of Landscape’ with Francesca Vanke, Senior Curator and Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art.

Charlotte Topsfield, the Scottish National Gallery’s Senior Curator in charge of prints and drawings, will host a private, out of hours view (starting at 9 a.m.) of the National Gallery of Ireland’s Turner watercolours from the Vaughan Bequest.

To be followed by an informal talk by Catherine Parry-Wingfield: Images of Turner – Boy, Man and ‘Afterlife’.

Amy Concannon, Manton Senior Curator of Historic British Art, will lead Society members through the rehang of the Turner Galleries and discuss the response from the public.

The Society’s summer outing will be to Petworth, where our tour will be guided by Emily Knight, the National Trust Curator.

The 44th Kurt Pantzer Memorial Lecture by Professor Malcolm Andrews. The lecture argues for affinities between Dickens’s prose evocation of Venice and Turner’s oils and watercolours of the city.

The catalogue of the Turner Bequest’s rich holdings of works on paper was launched on Tate’s website in 2013. Since then, over 30,000 entries for sketchbook pages and individual sheets have been published within a chronological framework covering all phases of Turner’s career, with some 7,500 remaining entries now in hand.

A link to this meeting will be circulated to members at a later date.

Lecture by Margaret Burr. B.G. Windus (1790–1867), a wealthy coachmaker who lived in Tottenham, north London, assembled an important collection of over 200 Turner watercolours which was memorialised in a well-known watercolour of his library by John Scarlett Davis in 1835.